Update your class with announcements

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Announcements are an important feature inside of the Canvas learning management system that allow you to improve communication with your students. Announcements can be created to remind students of deadlines or due dates, events, field trips, and more. These announcements will be posted on the Canvas platform, visible for all students to see. Creating announcements is a great way to keep your students up-to-date and informed about what is going on in your course.

- [Instructor] In this video we'll take a look…at another communication tool inside of Canvas,…and that is announcements.…Announcements are a great way to remind your students…about events, guest speakers, due dates,…field trips, or anything you want to remind them about.…Now in order to access and create an announcement,…I'm going to go to the course navigation bar,…and then go up to Announcements.…Here you'll see that I don't yet have any created,…so I'm going to go ahead and create my first announcement.…I'll do this by clicking on the plus Announcement tab.…In here I'll give it a title,…and I'm going to paste a message that I've already…typed out here, and it's just letting students know…that we have a field trip coming up on Friday,…and they should remember to dress accordingly.…

Now below this we have some more options.…We can add an attachment if we want.…We can also delay posting, and I really like this feature,…because it allows you to create a post,…and to publish it, however it won't be shared…with students until the day and time…

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7/25/2017

Canvas is the leading open-source learning management system, used by institutions and instructors around the globe. Learn how to get your Canvas classroom up and running fast, with this beginner-level overview of its features and functions. Oliver Schinkten explores how to set up a class, work with students, and teach online with Canvas 2017, and explores best practices for leveraging Canvas for student success. Topics include grading assignments, building quizzes, communicating with students, and adding multimedia and other resources.